Earth hour

Tonight it's earth hour. That means that if you want to participate you need to shut down the lights in your house for one hour. By doing this you can save on electricity. If just one person does this it wouldn't be very effective but if more than 2 millions do this it's a whole other story. Lots of energy will be saved then.

But that is also the big problem. If everyone switches the lights back on at the same time there's a huge demand of electricity at that moment. And that can bring down the electric system for a few seconds or even a few hours. Because of that company's that provide electric ask everyone to not switch on the lights at the same time. They also ask you to only shut down the lights and not your complete house.

To keep all my data save I will shut down my computer this evening for once. Normally it's just in sleep mode, but this time I will power it down completely. You can never be sure enough.

Multiple inboxes in Gmail

Since a few weeks I'm using multiple inboxes on my Gmail-account. And yesterday I found a new option in the settings to rename the name of a certain inbox.

In the past you could only see the search for a certain message. Normally you see something like this:

from:mybestfriend.net

This search would show all the messages that where send from the domain mybestfriend.net. But because now you can change this you could set this to something like this:
Mail from my best friend

In my case I only use it to display messages that are sent to a certain e-mail address. I have several e-mail addresses that are forwarded to my Gmail address and by doing this I can see important mails (like from work) faster. I don't need to check the long list any more. I really like this new feature.